Have you heard of The Beatitudes?

Hello, this week is Social Justice Week! So for R.E, we are learning about Social Justice Week and to explain the beatitudes and what each of it means.

So, for our task we watched a couple of videos to learn more about what beatitudes are, we had different choices of beatitudes to explore and learn about, then after creating a simple poster explaining what that beatitude means using photos and shapes. Here's my poster! 

What do you know about the beatitudes? Let me know in the comments! 

Why Games Aren't Bad For You!

Every year, in term 3 we have speeches where we write our topic we have to discuss, for today my topic was about 'Why games aren't bad for you at all!'

We presented our speeches in class last week, and yesterday students from the senior syndicate were selected to compete in the semi-finals. Unfortunately I wasn't one of them, although I was very impressed by the other students! Here's my speech. 

Why games aren't bad for you

I know that most of you have most definitely played video games before! Have you ever heard from other people of how video games or other types of games promote violence, and how it can increase aggression in thoughts, behavior, and feelings? If you are me, then you would agree with the questions above. Today, in my speech, I will explain why I strongly believe that games aren't bad for you. Firstly, video games can actually help you! Some games can actually improve hand-eye coordination, problem-solving skills, and the ability to process information. Another example of the kinds of games that can help you are arcade games, it improves reflexes and muscle memory, playing arcade games reduces stress and depression. How is this possible? Studies have found that people who play games that suffer from mental health issues actually have shown improvement in their condition after venting their frustrations through gaming! Some games actually improve people's moods and promote relaxation! Secondly, some games can actually benefit educational learning! An example is Scratch, it is a platform that can help with programming your own interactive stories, coding games, and more. You can also share your creations online for others to see! Some types of online games that are also helpful with learning are Prodigy. Prodigy is a game which teaches you mathematics, and helps you solve or answer different maths questions. This combines maths from grades 1-8 into a fantasy style game! This game is a gamification type, which adds game mechanics to something which is non-game!

Lastly, games don't affect a child's performance in school or a child's intelligence! The pure fact that people say how games rot your brain is outrageous! A study by McDermott et al proved that people who play video games are excellent at maintaining many memories and higher accuracy in visual spatial working memory, this is a kind of a visual representation. This allows people to visualize something and keep it in their "mind's eye". Another study says children who play games tend to do better at science, maths, and reading tests. 

For these reasons, parents need to reconsider thinking that games aren't bad at all. Thank you for listening to my speech.

Saint Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church

Hello! For R.E, we were finding facts and information about our House saint. In our school, students are put in a house, the houses are St. Joseph Red House, St. Francis Green House, St. Mary Mackillop Blue House, and St. Vincent Yellow House, my house color is Red house.

For our task we drew our house saint using Google Drawings, added facts and information from our research about the saint. Here's my Google Drawing!

I found this activity very fun! I did find using shapes and lines very difficult though. What do you know about Saint Joseph? Let me know in the comments!

Cats VS Dogs!

Hello! For yesterday's Reading we were learning how to apply prior knowledge and opinions! Our topic was about debating which pet is better, cats or dogs!

We researched and read a few videos and a text, next adding our knowledge to a chart, with our opinions and thoughts on which pet is better, some chose dogs and some chose cats. I decided to choose cats! I put a lot of research on my chart to hopefully convince people that cats are a better pet!

It was a very tough decision on which side to pick! Which pet would you pick? Comment your answers! I would love to see them!

Saint Lorenzo of Manila

Hello! On Monday for R.E we were researching the life of a saint. The saint I decided to research was Saint Lorenzo Ruiz.

For what I had to do for this task I created a set of slides and wrote my answers to different questions asking about the life of the saint I picked to research about. Here's my slides:

This activity was amazing! It taught me a lot about things I didn't know! Do you know how people like these saints become one? Let me know in the comments!

Facts You Probably Didn't Know About the Paralympics!

Hello! Today for Inquiry, we were learning about the Paralympics! Since the Paralympic Games are currently held! We were given a video to watch, then we had to write 5 facts about the Paralympics, rather in the template we were given or any other way we came up with to present our facts. Here's mine!

I learnt tons from this activity! I love researching and learning more about this special event!

What do you know about cicadas?

Hello! Yesterday for Reading we were learning how to apply knowledge! We learnt about this so we can apply the knowledge we learnt to other challenges outside of school.

For what we are doing for this task, we were given different choices of which animal/insect to research about. There were different reading levels for this task. Level 2B, Level 2, and Level 3. For level 2B, the topic was about birds, for level 2, the topic was orcas, and for level 3, which is the very last one, the topic was cicadas. I challenged myself to do the highest level which was level 3. Here's my slides!

I loved researching information about cicadas! I learnt tons about these insects throughout researching facts I could add into my slides. I'm looking forward to activities similar to this task in the future! What other information do you know about cicadas? Let me know in the comments!